Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everythin...g is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable.... It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as... is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto ...detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, mo...st unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances i...t can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits me...n to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »